The American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1865
Volume V. Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture and Mechanical Industry New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1867.
Hardcover. Quarto. iv, 838 pages. Frontispiece steel engraving of Abraham Lincoln. Illustrated with steel engravings of Admiral Farragut and Andrew Johnson. A small map illustration of the Appomattox River and Petersburg. Large page map of "Second Attack Upon Fort Fisher" included. Hardcover. Dark leather spine and corners with marbled paper covered boards. 5 raised bands, gilt stamped decorations and title on spine. Reddish marbled end sheets and text edges. Edge wear to the boards. Leather is dry and rubbed head and base of spine and corners. Marbled paper shelf worn. Frontispiece engraving, title page, and early pages are foxed. Label removed from rear end paper. Presentation label on the front paste down - "Presented to the Young Men's Library Association by Mrs. J. R. Lamar From the Library of Justice Lamar January, 1917." Address label of E. Merton Coulter pasted down in the upper left corner of the front paste down. Contents include Army and Navy operations and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Good. Item #11637
Joseph Rucker Lamar, 1857-1916, was an Associate Justice to the United States Supreme Court up until his death from 1911-1916. His cousin was Lucius Lamar of Georgia also an Associate Justice. Justice Lamar was born in Elbert County, Georgia and practiced law in Augusta, Georgia. He was appointed to the Court by President Taft.
E. Merton Coulter was a professor at the University of Georgia. He was a Georgia historian and author of several books and articles dealing with southern history.
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